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The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, formerly the Stanford University Museum of Art, is an art museum on the campus of Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
 in Stanford, California
Stanford, California

Stanford is a census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, California, United States. The population was 13,315 at the United States Census, 2000...
. It displays art in 24 galleries plus sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard -- all with free admission.

The museum was established, along with the university, in 1891 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford
Leland Stanford

Amasa Leland Stanford was an American tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University....
 and his wife Jane
Jane Stanford

Jane Stanford , was the daughter of a shopkeeper and lived on Washington Avenue in Albany, New York. She wed Leland Stanford in 1850. They headed west, first to Wisconsin and then to California....
. As with the university, the museum was created in memory of the couple's late son, Leland Stanford, Jr.
Leland Stanford, Jr.

Leland Stanford Jr. , Leland DeWitt Stanford until age nine, was the only child of Governor of California Leland Stanford of California and his wife Jane Stanford and is the namesake of Stanford University in the United States....
, and the museum was known initially as the Leland Stanford Junior Museum.






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The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, formerly the Stanford University Museum of Art, is an art museum on the campus of Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
 in Stanford, California
Stanford, California

Stanford is a census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, California, United States. The population was 13,315 at the United States Census, 2000...
. It displays art in 24 galleries plus sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard -- all with free admission.

The museum was established, along with the university, in 1891 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford
Leland Stanford

Amasa Leland Stanford was an American tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University....
 and his wife Jane
Jane Stanford

Jane Stanford , was the daughter of a shopkeeper and lived on Washington Avenue in Albany, New York. She wed Leland Stanford in 1850. They headed west, first to Wisconsin and then to California....
. As with the university, the museum was created in memory of the couple's late son, Leland Stanford, Jr.
Leland Stanford, Jr.

Leland Stanford Jr. , Leland DeWitt Stanford until age nine, was the only child of Governor of California Leland Stanford of California and his wife Jane Stanford and is the namesake of Stanford University in the United States....
, and the museum was known initially as the Leland Stanford Junior Museum. The museum opened to the public in 1894 as one of the largest museums in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
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Less than a year after Mrs. Stanford's death, more than two-thirds of the building and collections were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, after which the museum received little attention and was finally closed in 1945. In 1963, Lorenz Eitner, the new Chair of the Department of Art, worked to revive the museum. In 1985, with work by Professor Albert Elsen, the B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden was established. In 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake
Loma Prieta earthquake

The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Quake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m....
 damaged the museum and it was again closed. Following further donations by broker B. Gerald Cantor (co-founder Cantor Fitzgerald) and his wife Iris, the center reopened in 1999 as the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. It is also known as Cantor Arts Center.

One of the highlights of Cantor Arts Center is the Rodin sculpture garden which contains 20 bronzes. Among them are the famous Gates of Hell, Adam
Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve are the First man or woman created by God in the Hebrew creation story told in Genesis 1-2....
, Eve
Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve are the First man or woman created by God in the Hebrew creation story told in Genesis 1-2....
, The Three Shades, and The Thinker
The Thinker

The Thinker is a bronze and marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin held in the Mus?e Rodin in Paris. It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle....
. The Burghers of Calais
The Burghers of Calais

The Burghers of Calais is one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin, completed in 1889. It serves as a monument to an occurrence in 1347 during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, an important France port on the English Channel, was under siege by the England for over a year....
 is displayed in the Stanford Main Quad. In total, the Cantors donated 187 of Rodin's works, making Stanford University the third largest Rodin collection in the world after the Musée Rodin
Musée Rodin

The Mus?e Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919 in the H?tel Biron and surrounding grounds. It displays works by the France sculpture Auguste Rodin....
 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 and the Rodin Museum
Rodin Museum

The Rodin Museum is a museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which contains the largest collection of sculptor Auguste Rodin's works outside Paris....
 in Philadelphia, PA.

Other public exhibits include the Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
 sculpture garden, southwest of the Stanford Main Quad, with unique examples of the striking traditional Visual Arts of Papua New Guinea
Visual Arts of Papua New Guinea

There is a rich and diverse tradition of visual art in Papua New Guinea. In particular, it is world-famous for carved wooden sculpture: masks, canoes, story-boards....
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